October 09, 2020
A French former Goldman Sachs banker who was recently sentenced to home confinement for insider trading told a New York federal court Thursday that an order from immigration authorities to leave the U.S. by Oct. 24 directly conflicts with the terms of his supervised release.
June 09, 2020
A Manhattan federal judge hit former Goldman Sachs banker Bryan Cohen with a year of home detention Tuesday for insider trading, saying the French national acted out of "greed and hubris" but citing an asthma diagnosis and the coronavirus outbreak in sparing him prison for a "brazen" offense.
May 28, 2020
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday contended that a former Goldman Sachs banker had played a critical role in an insider trading plot and should spend three years in federal prison, the global pandemic notwithstanding, but added that he shouldn't have to start that sentence until it was safe to do so.
May 21, 2020
A former Goldman Sachs banker who copped to sharing corporate secrets with a supervisor's acquaintance told a New York federal judge Wednesday that given the pandemic, he should be sentenced to supervised release and a year of community service.
May 19, 2020
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered a former Goldman Sachs banker's sentencing for insider trading to proceed via videoconference, noting that "delaying every sentencing would multiply the existing backlog of cases in the federal court system and generate a deluge of hearings once in-person proceedings can safely resume."
May 11, 2020
Former Goldman Sachs banker Bryan Cohen should not be sentenced for insider trading until the coronavirus outbreak subsides enough to allow for an appearance in court, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Friday, after Cohen asked to go forward via video citing the "uncertainty and stress" of continuing to wait.
January 13, 2020
Federal prosecutors asked a Manhattan jury Monday to rely on what they call "overwhelming" circumstantial evidence to convict an entrepreneur of leaking secrets about his father's pharmaceutical company to a trader friend, pushing back against a defense theory that another suspect is the tipper.
January 07, 2020
Former Goldman Sachs banker Bryan Cohen copped to insider trading at an unannounced hearing in Manhattan federal court Tuesday, giving New York prosecutors a second conviction in an international stock fraud bust.
December 16, 2019
Bryan Cohen, the New York-based Goldman Sachs investment banker from France accused of passing insider tips to a European trader, denied additional charges in Manhattan federal court Monday as a judge set a February trial date.
October 30, 2019
A Goldman Sachs investment banker accused of passing tips in a large insider trading scheme has hired prominent firm Brafman & Associates after firing his previous attorneys following his bail hearing.